Title: Professor Emeritus

Sociology Office: 4080 BSB

Sociology Phone: 312-996-0593

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Research Interests: sociology of religion, immigration, youth and religion

Recent Courses:

• Soc 246 (cross-listed as RelS 246): Sociology of Religion
• Soc 408 (cross-listed with 509 and Anthro 418): Sociological Field Methods
• Soc 446 (cross-listed as RelS 446): Race, Ethnicity and Gender in American Religion
• Soc 487: Contemporary Sociological Theory
• Soc 520: Post-1965 Immigration in the Lens of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
• Soc 595: Dissertation Seminar

Web Addresses: http://www.uic.edu/depts/soci/yrp/index1.html

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Bio: R. Stephen Warner (PhD Berkeley 1972) works in sociology of religion and is President-Elect (for the 2006-2007 year) of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, past-president of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, past-chair of the ASA Religion Section, and co-founder of CAGSRC, the Chicago-Area Group for the Study of Religious Communities. He has held Guggenheim, Institute for Advanced Study and NEH Fellowships, and his research has been supported by the Lilly Endowment and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Among his publications are New Wine in Old Wineskins: Evangelicals and Liberals in a Small-Town Church (1989 SSSR Distinguished Book Award), "Work in Progress Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociological Study of Religion in the United States" (1994 SSSR Distinguished Article Award), and A Church of Our Own: Disestablishment and Diversity in American Religion (2005). He is co-editor of Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration (1998) and Korean Americans and their Religions: Pilgrims and Missionaries From a Different Shore (2001). A report from the Youth and Religion Project, Navigating To Faith: Forming American Youth as Christians, Muslims, and Hindus (with Rhys H. Williams), is under contract with Rutgers University Press.